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1 online resource (933) : illustrations |
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Cover; Title; Acknowledgements; Contents; Foreword; Note on Nomenclature; Chronology of the Life of Colin Campbell, Lord Clyde; Prologue; 1 Witness to War; 2 Into Battle; 3 Policeman; 4 Imperialist; 5 Mutiny Apprenticeship; 6 Soldier Sahib; 7 Highlander; 8 Modern Major-General; 9 Commander-in-Chief; 10 Deliverer; 11 Conqueror; 12 Old Soldier; Appendix A The Extent of British Casualties in the Summer Campaign of 1858 in India; Appendix B Campbell's Ancestry; Bibliography; Glossary; Plates; Copyright. |
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From humble Glasgow beginnings, Colin Campbell rose to become Scotland's finest general and a favourite of Queen Victoria. In his fifty-year career he fought through the Peninsula, the Crimea, China and India, and still found time to contain a slave revolt, a Chartist revolution and Ireland's Tithe War. Through a combination of personal courage, compassionate leadership and genius for military strategy he became an idol for the men who served under him. This undisputed hero, whose memory has grown faint beside celebrated warriors of the Victorian age, was a soldier ahead of his time the firs. |
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Clyde, Colin Campbell, Baron, 1792-1863.
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Clyde, Colin Campbell, Baron, 1792-1863. |
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Generals -- Scotland -- Biography.
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Generals. |
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Scotland. |
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Biographies.
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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Print version: Greenwood, Adrian. Victoria's Scottish Lion : The Life of Colin Campbell, Lord Clyde. New York : The History Press, ©2015 9780750956857 |
| ISBN |
0750965541 (electronic book) |
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9780750965545 (electronic book) |
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